Trial-sheet for typewritten matter



M. LIGHTER.

TRIAL SHEET FOR TYPEWRITTEN MATTER.

APPLICATION FILED DEC. 3, 1919.

i' 15m RE 1 957 11 the fomance of his first nsfl to the United S a years ago when he came 'mqogmto. His experiences cub reporter" for an Amencan newspaper and othe E 31H ventures that befall him 'm thls voyage of discove read. more like the invenuons of a good novelist ctual happenings. But all thus 15- like a summer n f. lama-E;

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all the romance of his first visit to the United States years ag when he came mcognito. H15 EXPQYIQYICBS as a cub reporter for an Amerlcan newspaper and other adventures that-befell him in U115 voyage of dlscoyer'y read more like the 'mvenn'wnsoi a 390d novelist than actual happen'mss. But all ch15 Ls llke a summer novel INVENTOR. M1 y/N L/cI/TER M A TTORNEYS.

MALVIN LIGHTER, or new YORK, N. Y.

TRIAL-SHEET FOR 'rYrEwn-ITTnN MATTER.

Specification of Lettersiatent. Patented Dec 21 1920 Original application filed October 23, 1919, Serial No. 332,695. Divided and this application filed December 3, 1919. 'Serial No. 342,124.

new and useful Improvements in Trial- Sheets for Typewritten Mattenof which the following is a full, clear, and concise description. Y

My invention relates to trial sheets to be employed in the preparation of plates usedfor printing, and is a division of my pending application, filed Oct. 23, 1919, Serial No. 332,695, for a method of preparing plates for printing.

My invention comprehends the produc tion of a trial sheet made by the use of a standard typewriting machine, the trial sheet being so prepared that when typographical characters are placed upon it in lines differing in length the sheet willindicate, in terms of width of standard typewritten characters, the precise differences in the lengths of the various lines.

More particularly stated, I take a blank sheet of paper and provide it with indicating marks, preferably sight lines and numerals, so positioned that when the sheet is placed upon a standard typewriting machine and caused to receive typewritten lines of different lengths, the various differences in the lengths of the typewritten lines will be rendered manifest by the indicating marks. In other words, I so arrange the indicating marks upon the sheet that the mere typewriting of the sheet will cause the indicating marks to automatically indicate all differences in the lengths of the typewritten lines.

The indicating marks are also arranged" so as to disclose, in terms of unit spaces each equal to the width of a letter made-by the standard typewriting machine, the precise number of such spaces required in each of the typewritten lines to fill all of the" lines out to a predetermined length, namely,

the maximum length which the typewritten I lines can have with the machine adjusted for the general width of the sheet.

Reference is made to the accompanying drawing forming a part of this specification and in which like letters indicate like parts throughout the several figures.

Figure l is a fragmentary plan View of my improved trial sheet, as it appears before any typewritten characters are placed upon it.

Fig. 2 is a fragmentary plan view of the trial sheet after the typewritten characters are placed upon it.

Fig. 3 is a fragmentary plan view of a sheet made from the trial sheet as a guide, and adapted for use as copy for the preparation of a printing plate.

A sheet of paper a is provided with a straight sight line 6, extending vertically the full length of the sheet, and parallel to the left edge thereof. The sheet is also provided with a number of vertically extending straight sight lines o, disposed parallel to each other and separated by spaces each of the exact width of a letter or other character as ordinarily made by a standard typewriting machine. The sight line I) is separated from the nearest one of the sight lines 0 by a distance equal to an exact multiple of the width of a letter, and hence it fol-v lows that each sight line 0 is separated from the sight line b by some exact multiple of such letter.

The sight line b is so located as to enable the operator to use it as a guide for indicating the several beginnings of the lines of typographical characters to be made upon the machine. Similarly, the sight lines 0 are properly located to indicate the endings of such lines.

Between'the sight lines 0 are numerals l to 9 inclusive, repeated at intervals and arranged in groups d, c, f, g, h, as shown in Fig. 1. I, v

The sight lines I) and o and all of the nu- ,merals in the various groupsare preferably rather sharply defined, and like the numerals should be either in colors or otherwise so formed or arranged as to be readily distinguishable from such characters as may be made upon the typewriting machine. By

having them in colors they may be rendered incapable of reproduction by a photolith'ograpl'iic process or by a photo engraving.

The sheet shown in Fig. 1 and just described may be made up as an'article of manufacture and sold in quantity. Practically speaking, a number of such sheets are by the typist considered as merely so much stock; that is, typewriting paper, of a special kind. 7 In order to use the sheet, shown in Fig. 1, it is placed in the typewriting machine and so adjusted that the sight line Z) is in proper position to indicate the beginnings for the several lines of characters to be typewritten. The typewriting is next done in the usual manner, so that the several typewritten lines appear as at in Fig. 2.

By virture of the spacing of the sight line I) from the nearest of the other sight lines 0 and the spacing of the sight linesc relatively to each other, each letter or character ending atypewritten line is made in some one of the longitudinal spaces designated by the numerals 1 to 9 inclusive. Such being the case the operator, by merely glancing at the finished sheet, can determine all differences in the lengths of the typewritten lines,these differences being reckoned in units, each unit being the width of a typewritten letter or other typewritten character. Moreover, the operator is enabled at a glanceto determine the shortage, if any, of each of the typewritten lines 70 from a predetermined straight line, namely the particular sight line at the extreme right of the series of sight lines a; or in other words, the line to the right. of the several numerals 1. This line is so located as to delineate the maximum length of typewritten line which can be made upon the typewriting machine, when the machine is adjusted for use upon this kind of sheet.

Thus the operator can ascertain, line by line of the typewritten matter, just how many spaces are required for each of the typewritten lines in order to render these lines all of a common length. This completes the trial sheet shown in Fig. 2,'and the typist thereupon removes it from the machine. Next a plain piece of paper Z is placed in the machine andthe completed trial sheet just described and shown in Fig; 2 is used as a copy. The typist now copies the typewritten matter from the trial sheet, but spaces the words apart so as to render all of the lines of uniform length, which is, of course, the maximum length for which the typewriting machine is adjusted, as shown at m in Fig. 3. Glancing at the top line of the typewritten matter is in Fig. 2, it will be noted that the word States is ended in the fourth consecutive longitudinal space indicated by the numerals. This means to the typist that the typewritten line is short by three spaces, and that in rewriting the line as shown in Fig. 3, these three spaces must be inserted along with and in addition to the usual or normal spaces of the line. Just where the three spaces'are to go is a matter of judgment for V r the typist, but they should be so spaced as The preparation of the printing platefrom a copy sheet, being old and well known, forms no part of this invention.

Having thus described my invention, wha I claim as new and desire to secure by Letters Patent is as follows:

1.- As an article of manufacture, a member of sheet material provided with'a number of sight lines disposed parallel to each other, tw of said lines being spaced apart by a distance which is an exact multiple of the width of a letter'inade by a standard typewriting machine, others'of'said sightlines being spaced apart by. distances each of the precise width of a letter made by a standard typewriting machine. 7 g

2. As an article of manufacture, a sheet of paper having a blank space free of ruling and occupying most of the sheet, said sheet beingfurther provided with a group of sight lines disposed parallel with eachother and separated by distances each precisely equal to the width of a letter made by a standard typewriting machine, said group as a whole being so positioned as to bound said blank space in one direction.

3. As an article of manufacture, a sheet of paper provided with sight lines spaced apart by distances each of which is precisely equal f typewriting machine, said sheet of paper being further provided with numerals arranged in distinctgroups, the groups being spaced apart and each made up of numbers arranged consecutively. I 4:. As an article of manufacture, a sheet of paper provided with a sight line disposed adjacent one of its margins and witha'plurality of other sight lines disposed adjacent another 'to the width of a letter made by a'standard,

of its margins, said last mentioned sight lines being spaced apart by distances each equal to the precise width of aletter made by a standard typewriting machine,said'lastmentioned sight lines being spaced from said' first mentioned sight line 'bya distance which 1 lld in an exact multipleof the width of a letter 1 made by a standard typewriting machine.

MALVIN LIGHTER. '7 

